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The objective of this article is to analyze the specificities and the entrepreneurial issues of the atypical work relationship that constitutes the CSA cooperation initiated between a small farmer and a group of volunteer consumers. Similar to a specific form of agricultural collective entrepreneurship, the creation of a community supported agriculture (CSA) materializes through a contractualized commitment of consumers in the activity of agricultural production and direct sales of local food products. The commitment of these consumers can then be compared to a real workforce for the small farmer, facilitating access to complementary expertise and skills. Our research aims to understand how CSA cooperation, as an atypical work relationship, makes it possible to stimulate, within a territory, collective rural entrepreneurship between a small farmer and a group of volunteer consumers. Based on a qualitative methodology, our results show that this atypical work relationship is characterized by a system of co-production, co-management and learning reciprocity. Furthermore, it promotes, for the rural entrepreneur, the establishment of an enabling environment thanks to the principles of replacement, support, education and accompaniment which the creation of a CSA obeys and which strengthen the capacity for action and empowerment of the small farmer. Thus, the purpose of this atypical work relationship lies in “undertaking together” to, ultimately, co-create social value. This entrepreneurial and altruistic approach to the atypical work relationship enriches the academic literature which has, until now, considered it mainly from the worker's vulnerable situation. We also propose to consider it based on the worker's ability to take part in a collective entrepreneurship project by providing a community with a set of expertise and skills.
Keywords: Coopération amapienne, AMAP, Relation de travail atypique, Environnement capacitant, Entrepreneuriat agricole, Entrepreneuriat collectif, Entrepreneuriat social, Community Supported Agriculture, CSA, Atypical Work Relationship, Enabling Environment, Rural Entrepreneurship, Collective Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship
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Sociétés Coopératives d’Intérêt Collectif (SCICs) are part of an international cooperative revival that began in the 1990s. Characterized by a multi-stakeholder membership comprising at least three categories of members, including workers and beneficiaries, SCICs may also include public actors among their members. This article examines the effects of their development on the meso-level of the social and solidarity economy based on the context in which they emerged and their channels of differentiation. Based on a mixed methodology (interviews, observations, statistical data) and a comparison with solidarity cooperatives in Quebec, this work highlights the role of SCICs in densifying the meso space and shows that they reinforce the critical function of the SSE by developing strategies for institutional change through their economic activity.
Keywords: SCIC, coopératives multi sociétaires, méso analyse, économie sociale et solidaire, changement institutionnel, SCIC, multi-member cooperatives, meso analysis, social and solidarity economy, institutional change
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The need for higher education in Africa to adopt a more active, constructivist and socioconstructivist pedagogy seems to be a consensus. However, certain specificities of the African educational context, such as the large numbers of learners, appear to be an obstacle to this type of pedagogy. Also, tools such as electronic voting boxes (VEBs), which are likely to improve student participation in lectures, offer an opportunity for universities, especially in a particular African context. If BVE are factors of interactivity in teaching, do they promote learning? This quantitative research tries to understand the uses made of BVE in the context of 2IE and the perception of students on its effectiveness for learning.
Keywords: évaluation, boîtiers de vote électronique (BVE), grands groupes ; 2IE, pédagogie active, Burkina-Faso, evaluation, electronic voting keypads (BVE), large groups; 2IE, active pedagogy, Burkina Faso
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In this article the new version of the OFCE quarterly macroeconomic model of the French economy is presented. This model is used both for forecasts and economic policy analyses. The model basicallly of the neo-keynesian type, is desaggregating the economy into five sectors and six products. First the overall model properties are described, then a set of ten standard simulations is released, covering areas of domestic policy as well as changes in the external environment.
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Within a few years, the concept of proximity has emerged and has been given a central, linking role in a new range of contributions led at the frontier between industrial economics and spatial economics. The interest raised by the concept may however be overcome by its polysemous aspect. It would thus be necessary to clarify the contents as well as the relevance of the concept of proximity. In order to attempt and tackle those questions, the paper focuses on one framework at the frontier between industrial economics and spatial economics -the analysis of technological and territorial interactions- within which the concept of proximity has emerged. In this perspective, we suggest that the dimensions of proximity stressed as well as the relevance of the concept are relative to the kind of approach employed for the analysis of technological and territorial interactions.
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